Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific. What’s at Stake?
Half of Asia’s population, about 2.4 billion people, live in low-lying coastal areas and are under threat from rising seas, intensifying floods and storms and land degradation through increased salination. On average, 43,000 people in Asia-Pacific are killed in storms, floods, and landslides each year. In this paper, the
UNDP warns that more than 60 percent of people work in sectors highly susceptible to changing weather patterns, with rising seas; more frequent floods, storms, and landslides; escalating heatwaves and droughts; and acidifying oceans and coral bleaching aggravating an already perilous situation.
https://medium.com/@UNDP/climate-change-in-asia-and-the-pacific-whats-at-stake-47c7b0de5ade
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